The floral register : containing figures and descriptions of nearly all tender and hardy plants, which have been lately introduced to, and cultivated in Great Britain

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Notes: Date from F. Cardew's article in Journ. Soc. Bib. Nat. History.; Separate issue of the serial of the same name which appeared in installments with Maund's Botanic garden, Vol. 6, No. 1 to Vol. 13 (1835-50).; "The first part of the Floral register has appeared, in small portions, in Maund's Botanic garden, prior to no. 193; and the second part is continued in the subsequent monthly numbers of the same work, commencing with 193."; Includes index.; Stafleu (2nd) 5715; Journ. Soc. Bib. Nat. History 3:321; Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 2380; SCNHRB copy is incomplete, and has xvi, 180 p. (presumably of pt. 1) only, with the index to v. 1-6 of Maund's Botanic garden ([12] p.) inserted at end.; SCNRHB copy is bound with: Maund, B. The auctarium of the Botanic garden. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., [1850?]. Bound together subsequent to publication.; SCNHRB copy has stamp: Smithsonian Institution Special Collections, Sept. 9, 1929.; SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Ex libris quos Institutioni Smithsonianae anno MCMV donavit John Donnell Smith.; SCNHRB copy has an old dark blue half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Housed in an archival paperboard box for preservation (with "The botanic garden, pt. 1" erroneously printed on spine).

Author: Maund, B. (Benjamin) 1790-1863; Maund, Benjamin 1790-1863 Botanic garden
donor: Smith, John Donnell 1829-1928 DSI